Fire Will Come

When Amador is set free, after his imprisonment for committing arson, there is no joyous homecoming in store. He sets out to return to his hometown, a small village in the Galician mountains. His life by the side of his elderly mother is hardscrabble and bleak, but Laxe’s camera finds the way to install beauty into the harshness. As the title implies, the fire will return, like a dark self-fulfilling prophecy, to set a tragedy in motion. A mesmerizing requiem on a vanishing way of life built on sorrow and unhealed anger.